Paul Dudley White

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Paul Dudley White (born June 6, 1886 in Roxbury , Massachusetts , † October 31, 1973 ) was an American cardiologist and founder of the American Heart Association.

In 1953 he was awarded the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research .

Life

Paul Dudley White was born the son of a family doctor and grew up in Roxbury, Massachusetts, where he also attended middle school. After graduation, he moved to Harvard College, where he obtained his university entrance qualification in 1908. It is said that the death of his sister, who died of rheumatic fever at the age of twelve , sparked his interest in cardiology. White studied medicine at Harvard University and graduated in 1911. He then worked first in the newly established department of pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital . In 1913 he received an international scholarship and spent a year at University College Hospital in London studying the electrocardiogram . With the outbreak of the First World War he volunteered for military service and served with a Harvard unit near Bologna . In 1917 he helped set up the American air base in Bordeaux . He was honored by the Greek government for organizing an aid expedition for the American Red Cross to fight a typhoid epidemic in Macedonia and the Greek islands . When he returned to Massachusetts General Hospital in 1919, he founded a cardiology department which he headed until 1949. He was succeeded by Edward Franklin Bland .

In 1940 White was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . The White Islands in Antarctica is named in his honor .

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During his time as a resident, Bland and his colleague Robert Irving Lee developed a method for measuring blood coagulation, his first medical publication. Through his outstanding clinical skills, he laid the foundation for his own international reputation and that of the cardiology department of the Massachusetts General Hospital which he founded. In 1924 he was a co-founder of the American Heart Association , which he became president in 1941. 1931 his classic textbook first appeared Heart Diseases ( heart disease ), which went through several editions. In 1948 he was elected President of the International Society of Cardiology and was subsequently President of the First World Cardiology Congress. White emphasized the importance of physical fitness and exercise in preventing coronary artery disease. His use of the bicycle was world-famous and the “Dr. Paul Dudley White Bike Path ”in the Boston area. In addition, a congenital malformation of the coronary arteries, the Bland-White-Garland syndrome , and the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome are named after him.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the American Academy. Listed by election year, 1900-1949 ( PDF ). Retrieved September 24, 2015